New Edition: Shelterforce Community Development Magazine

Posted by on March 14, 2011

The latest from NHI/Shelterforce

Commentary: The Midterm Elections

Breaking Down Walls: Senate Appropriators
LISC’s Barbara Burnham is back this week with more analysis of Congressional changes that will affect affordable housing advocates and the community development field.
http://www.shelterforce.org/special/2148/burnham2/

Also, see Barbara’s last post breaking down the assignments of the House Appropriations Committee and Subcommittees.

http://shelterforce.org/special/2140/congress_breaking_down_the_walls/

New on Rooflines

* Private Sector Funding in Public Housing Would Require a “Compromise” in Quality
* Bank Protests and Making Wall Street Pay
* The Suburban Frontier Won’t Provide the Answers

http://www.rooflines.org

Forging a New Housing Policy: Opportunity in the Wake of Crisis

This anthology, published by the National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra, comprises a series of essays examining the roots of the crisis, documents efforts to mitigate its effects, and plots routes towards a long-term reorientation of how housing is built, owned, controlled in the United States. http://nhi.org/go/ncss/

The Impact of the Republican HUD Budget in Your State

How many jobs will the proposed HUD budget eliminate? The National Alliance of Community Economic Development Associations has posted the data telling how each state will be affected. http://bit.ly/i1uObJ

Housing Policy Interviews

Our series, now housed in one place, includes interviews with HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan and Rep. Barney Frank.

http://www.shelterforce.org/archive/cat/C88/

The latest from Shelterforce

* Bringing CLTs to scale in Atlanta
* Atlanta BeltLine
* Atlanta’s Pittsburgh Neighborhood
* Interview with HUD’s Ron Sims

New from NHI

Homeownership Today and Tomorrow: Building Assets While Preserving Affordability
http://www.nhi.org/research/2054/homeownership_today_and_tomorrow_building_assets_while_preserving_affordabi/

Investing in Community Land Trusts
http://www.nhi.org/research/2053/investing_in_community_land_trusts_a_conversation_with_clt_funders/